03/09/2026
✨🍋LEMON LOAF RECIPE 🍋✨⬇️
We visited Puglia in southern Italy and the garden was brimming with delicious citrus. The chef kindly let us take a basket home and I tried out the girls favourite recipe. My go to for morning tea or something to bring for a friend. The olive oil gives its the perfect crumb.
🍋Loaf Ingredients
2 tbsp lemon zest
1 cup granulated sugar (200g)
3 large eggs
3 tbsp fresh lemon juice
½ cup Olive Oil
¾ cup plain yogurt
1½ cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp baking soda
¾ tsp salt
Lemon Syrup
3 tbsp fresh lemon juice
2½ tbsp granulated sugar
Stir together and put some fork holes into top of cake whilst still hot in loaf tin and drizzle.
Lemon Glaze
½ cup powdered sugar
½ tbsp lemon juice
Stir together powdered sugar and lemon juice until smooth, then drizzle over the cooled loaf.
Instructions
🍋Preheat oven to 175°C. Line a loaf tin with parchment.
🍋Zest lemon + Sugar Magic - Rub the lemon zest into the sugar with your fingers until fragrant and pale yellow.
🍋 Beat the zest-sugar with eggs until light and fluffy. Add lemon juice, extract, oil, and yogurt.
🍋In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, soda, and salt. Fold into the wet ingredients in two additions-don’t overmix!
🍋Pour into loaf pan. For the classic lemon loaf crack, drizzle a thin line of oil down the centre.
🍋Bake for 60–70 mins, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
🍋While still in loaf tin cooling down, put some fork holes on top and drizzle in the syrup.
🍋Glaze with powdered sugar and lemon juice mixed together until smooth, then drizzle over the cooled loaf.
If you make it- let me know what you think! Promise you it won’t disappoint.
